Pine siskin (Spinus pinus).
An unassuming winter visitor with a strongly ascending call.
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The following Cornell Lab | Macaulay Library recordings were used in this episode:
- Pine siskin first call by Geoffrey A. Keller (ML510257)
- Pine siskin various calls by Geoffrey A. Keller (ML510253)
- Pine siskin ascending call by Dave Herr (ML510254)
- Pine siskin flock calls by Geoffrey A. Keller (ML510252)
Sources and more:
- https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Pine_Siskin/
- https://www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/pine-siskin
- Godfrey, Michael A, John Farrand, and Roger Tory Peterson. Videoguide to the Birds of North America. New York, N.Y: MasterVision, 1985. Film.
- Peterson, Roger Tory, and Virginia Marie Peterson. A Field Guide to the Birds: A Completely New Guide to All the Birds of Eastern and Central North America. Fourth edition, completely revised and enlarged. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1980. Print.
- Sibley, David. Sibley Birds East: Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America. Second edition. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2016. Print.
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